Author: BARKER, MARY TROUP
Title: Seeker of Souls & Gold. William Hough, Pioneer Preacher and Prospector
Description: Christchurch, Self published. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0908673507) Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 124 pages, b/w illustrations. William Hough was a seeker and crusader. Pledging himself to help lead a Pacific Island race to the Christian God. he forsook home and family in Yorkshire and uprooted wife and children to sail in 1842 to New Zealand. Here he discovered an affinity with the Maori people and a facility in their language. The damp climate and extreme privations of bush life in South Taranaki almost killed him with chronic bronchitis; but, reviving in the healthier sunshine of Nelson, he found new avenues of usefulness among the white settlers. He kept up his Methodist preaching; and his exploring and gold-hunting crusades were only the most strenuous of the many endeavours which kept him striving until 1885. Very Good.

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